Note 932 — Chapter II · : STATE SOCIALISM

Schriften, vol. ii, p. 99. This address has been published under the title of Arbeiterlesebuch. This is just the attitude of which Marx disapproved. In a letter written to Schweitzer on October 13, 1868, quoted by Mehring (Aus dem litterarischen Nachlass, etc., vol. iv, p. 362), he expresses himself as follows: “He is too liable to be influenced by the immediate circumstances of the moment. He exaggerates the trivial difference between himself and a nonentity like Schulze-Delitzsch, until the issue between them, governmental intervention as against private initiative, becomes the central point of his agitation.”